NoMachine blank white screen on Kali Linux 2019.4

[mesagieru]

Hello,

Since 2 weeks ago I cannot access a cloud Kali machine using NoMachine. It worked well before, I didn’t do any system updates on the machine, and suddenly after a reboot it stopped working, meaning i can only see a white blank screen after successful authentication to the machine

The machine is running Kali Linux 2019.4 with gdm.

 

Thanks in advance

[Britgirl]

What version of NoMachine do you have installed on the server and client sides?

[mesagieru]

The server is running ‘nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb’ package and Windows client is also 6.9.2

[kroy]

Hi. Please try solution from that article: https://www.nomachine.com/AR03P00973. Turn of X server and restart nxserver.

sudo service gdm stop
sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --restart

To disable X server permanently you can execute command: sudo systemctl disable gdm3.service.

[mesagieru]

Hello,

I’ve already tried that but it didn’t work. Also , i’ve connected to the server using the client installed in the same machine , and i’ve got the same result: blank white screen . So i think it’s not a communication issue ..

[mesagieru]

On second try to disable gdm3 and restart nxserver , after performing those steps , when i log in i get an the attached error message

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[kroy]

Screenshot indicates that there could be wrong starting command. What is the output of the command grep DefaultDesktopCommand /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg. Please enable debug, reproduce problem and send logs to forum[at]nomachine[dot]com (all that should be done on the server side). There are instructions how to enable and collect debug logs automatically: https://www.nomachine.com/DT10O00162. Make sure you put the title of the topic as your subject.

cloud Kali machine

Can you write from which cloud service are you using?

[mesagieru]

Ok , situation seems to be solved after installing xfce desktop environment. Now I have access over NoMachine to the cloud machine.

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